(Rabbi of Kortchin (Korczyna), c. 1824-1877).

RUBIN, SAMUEL AARON.

(Kortchin)

(ca. 1870)

Autograph Hebrew Manuscript (unsigned) on paper, Ashkenazic cursive script. Commentaries on various topics pertaining to Aggadah and Midrash.

The author was one of the most prominent Chassidic Rabbis. He was considered the foremost disciple of R. Chaim Halberstam of Sanz and was chosen to prepare R. Chaim Sanzer’s responsa Divrei Chaim for publication. In this manuscript he frequently cites his teacher calling him Mori HaGaon (e.g. see f. 26b). R. Samuel Aaron was also a close disciple of R. Zev Wolf of Pshevorsk and R. Aryeh Leib Lipschitz (author of Aryeh Devei Ilai). He was a prolific writer on both Halacha and Aggadah and twelve of his works were published by his descendants. Among the author’s prominent descendants is the present Bobover Rebbe, R. Mordechai David Unger. The handwriting of this manuscript has been compared to the facsimile published in Einei Shmuel, (Jerusalem 1988) p. 21. For a complete biography see B. Landau in Halila DePischa (Jerusalem 1967).